HLTC43H3 Lecture 6: HLTC03 LECTURE 6.docx
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Political and economic context of health care policy. Consenses (rational: pluralism, public choice, new institutionalism. Critical - political ideology, state, power: structural (marxism, grand theory, political economy, feminist political economy. Peter hall"s policy paradigms: policy paradigms: different types of policy outcomes, paradigm: realm of discourse in which policymakers. Peter hall"s policy paradigms: social learning: he sees ideas as seen as important. Role of ideas in public policymaking process. What do ideas used in this process? what processes are informing policy change: distinguish btw learning processes associated with normal and radical policy change. Peter hall"s policy paradigms: typology of policy change: Slight adjustment - increasing doctors fees, resources for community. Changes in incremental changes. e. g. smoking, lets use public education campaign to tell them shouldn"t start smoking. Hoping to target young people that pick up smoking. But they have found that this isn"t working. Tax cigarettes and may lead to not purchasing.
